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NASA like all old orgs are extremely inefficient and overwhelmingly waste money. The solution is to create new orgs not hindered by old people that do the least

NASA like all old orgs are extremely inefficient and overwhelmingly waste money. The solution is to create new orgs not hindered by old people that do the least work for the most pay.

bandyaboot 1y ago
This has to be satire.
JumpCrisscross 1y ago
> NASA like all old orgs are extremely inefficient and overwhelmingly waste money The U.S. government just got red teamed by an extremely adversarial auditor in DOGE. They weren’t able to find almost any fraud (outside the DoD, which they didn’t touch). They found maybe tens of billions of spending they didn’t like out of a budget of trillions. Also, we’re on a start-up board. Are you seriously arguing that every start-up, or even the median start-up, is less wasteful than the median century-old company?
- pfdietz 1y ago
  NASA inefficiency is driven from the top down, by terrible goals and perverse incentives, mainly inflicted on the agency by lawmakers, but also due to getting stuck in a local optimum. It's not bottom up waste and fraud.
  - JumpCrisscross 1y ago
    > NASA inefficiency is driven from the top down, by terrible goals and perverse incentives To the extent there is documented inefficiency at NASA, it's in the way it manages its contractors for manned exploration. Its science budget is a paragon of institutional efficiency. > It's not bottom up waste and fraud Read the GAO report [1]. (Ctrl + F Bechtel.) But for sake of argument, let's assume this is true. How does cutting the science budget while preserving SLS make sense? [1] https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106256 https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106256
    - pfdietz 1y ago
      It doesn't make sense.
behringer 1y ago
So where's private businesses space telescope, if they're so efficient?
- deleted 1y ago
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- kulahan 1y ago
  Efficiency != profitability, though I don’t agree with him either. Not sure there’s much money to be made while searching the cosmos
  - yibg 1y ago
    Not in the short term and not directly for the company doing it. This is more of a reason for government funding though, not less.
Larrikin 1y ago
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NASA like all old orgs are extremely inefficient and overwhelmingly waste money. The solution is to create new orgs not hindered by old people that do the least work for the most pay.

bandyaboot 1y ago

This has to be satire.

JumpCrisscross 1y ago

> NASA like all old orgs are extremely inefficient and overwhelmingly waste money The U.S. government just got red teamed by an extremely adversarial auditor in DOGE. They weren’t able to find almost any fraud (outside the DoD, which they didn’t touch). They found maybe tens of billions of spending they didn’t like out of a budget of trillions. Also, we’re on a start-up board. Are you seriously arguing that every start-up, or even the median start-up, is less wasteful than the median century-old company?

pfdietz 1y ago
NASA inefficiency is driven from the top down, by terrible goals and perverse incentives, mainly inflicted on the agency by lawmakers, but also due to getting stuck in a local optimum. It's not bottom up waste and fraud.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  > NASA inefficiency is driven from the top down, by terrible goals and perverse incentives To the extent there is documented inefficiency at NASA, it's in the way it manages its contractors for manned exploration. Its science budget is a paragon of institutional efficiency. > It's not bottom up waste and fraud Read the GAO report [1]. (Ctrl + F Bechtel.) But for sake of argument, let's assume this is true. How does cutting the science budget while preserving SLS make sense? [1] https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106256 https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106256
  - pfdietz 1y ago
    It doesn't make sense.

behringer 1y ago

So where's private businesses space telescope, if they're so efficient?

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kulahan 1y ago
Efficiency != profitability, though I don’t agree with him either. Not sure there’s much money to be made while searching the cosmos
- yibg 1y ago
  Not in the short term and not directly for the company doing it. This is more of a reason for government funding though, not less.

Larrikin 1y ago

Post your sources